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The focus of the drill, planned in advance as part of the training program for 2020, is to improve the military’s offensive capabilities.
This display of the IDF’s technological capability could serve to discourage Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from wasting further funds on cross-border tunnels.
Israel’s elimination of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Gaza “chief of staff” Baha Abu al-Ata in 2019 was a game-changer for both Israel and the terrorist group.
The rocket was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air-defense system, causing no casualties or damage.
U.K.-based war monitor reports confirmed casualties, following an early-morning rocket strike on a school in northern Quneitra.
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz said despite the recent quiet, “beneath the surface, terrorist organizations continue their efforts to harm Israeli citizens and our sovereignty.”
The unit is composed of elite infantry, armored corps and air-force personnel, and its central mission is to operate in any combat arena for the rapid location and destruction of enemy targets.
The launch, which sent people running for shelter in Netiv Ha’asara, was the second such attack this month • No casualties or damage reported.
Troops suffered light and moderate injuries during an arrest operation in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, according to the military.
A total of 100 IDF medical professionals, including doctors, nurses and paramedics, team up with medical staff at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center.
With few jobs to entice troops to take illegal working “vacations” and more support for those from impoverished families, the men and women of the Israel Defense Forces are staying in uniform.
Incident occurred next to military post outside the town of Einav in northern Samaria • Search underway for surviving two assailants.
